Vestibule-curtain fastener.



W. R. GBESEY.

VESTIBULE CURTAIN PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.2, 1912.

,074,944. Patented oet. '7, 1913.

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W. R. GEESEY.

VESTIBULE CURTAIN 1:'ASIIIERA APPLICATION FILED Amm, 1912.

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WILLIAM R. GEESEY, 0F ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

VESTIBULE-CURTAIN FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 7,1913.

Application filed April 2, 1912. Serial No. 688,109.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. GEESEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Altoona, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vestibule-Curtain Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in car vestibule curtain fastening devices, and contemplates a device by which a vestibule curtain, that is mounted upon a spring actuated roller secured to the door frame of one car, is, after being pulled across the face of the diaphragm and face plates between the cars, secured to the door `frame of the next car so that the fastening device is not affected by the usual stresses put upon the curtain when the cars are passing around curves. However, the curtain is adapted to be automatically released should the cars become uncoupled purposely or by accident.

To this end the invention contemplates a device, the body or casing of which is adapted to be slidably fastened to a base plate which may be secured to the door frame of a car in such a position, that the loop attached to the free end of the curtain may be readily held thereby in position when the cars are coupled together, but can be automatically released to prevent damage to the curtain should the cars separate. With these and many other objects in view, which will more readily appear, as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully pointed out, illustrated and claimed.

The essential features of the invention involved in carrying out the objects above indicated are susceptible to a wide range of structural modification without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention, but a preferred and practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a longitudinal sectional view taken through the center of my improved vestibule curtain fastening device showing in dot-ted lines a portion of the vestibule curtain, the curtain loop as well as a portion of the door frame of the car. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the curtain fastening dey Vice and curtain loop shown in Fig. 1. Fig.

3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4, is a longitudinal sectional view of the combined spring casing and curtain loop strike. Figs. 5 and 6 are end elevations of the parts sho-wn in Fig. 4 of the drawings. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the combined spring stop and casing guide. Figs. 8 and 9 are edge views of the parts shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 10 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 10-10 of Fig. 7, and shows very clearly the portion forming the curtain loop keeper. Fig. 11 shows a detail of the spring used to actuate the combinedv spring casing and curtain loop strike. Fig. 12 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 4.

Like referencev numerals designate correspending parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In carrying out this invention, no change is contemplated in the usual door frame to which the curtain fastening device is attached, nor is it necessary to make any change in the curtain or the curtain loop.

Vith particular reference to the several views of the drawings theimproved fastening embodies a combined spring casing and vestibule curtain loop designated in its entirety by the numeral 10, and comprises in detail a hollow semi-cylindrical spring cas-- ing member 11, having formed on the interior of one of its end walls 12, a hollow boss 13. rIhe assembling pin 14 passes through the boss 18 and its threaded end 15 enters the threaded socket 16, in the opposite end wall 17 of the casing 11. The end wall 12 is also provided with a pendent guide projection 18, which is substantially T shape in design and the arms of which are designated as 19. The said arms 19 are adapted to slide in suitable guides 20 which are formed in the underside of the base member 21.

The base member 21, is provided with an outwardly projecting collar 22, formed from the upstanding lug 23. The said collar 22 permits the bolt or pin 14 to pass therethrough so that when the spring 24 is in place, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings, and the pin 14 screwed into position, the inside lip 25 of the strike 26 approaches the outwardly projecting keeper shoulder 27 of the base member 21, thus, forming a resilient keeper member. The entrance of the curtain loop holder 28 to the curtain fastener 110 is facilitated'by thebeveled'sides'33 and 134- against which the loop strikes beforeenter` ing the loop holding*portion-.of.'tliealateh.A i

designated as 35.

From the foregoing it willflbe-Tea-di'ly apparent that the curtain loop 28, when occuL pying the'posit-ionyshown in Figfl yol'ftlfie ll` drawings, will by virtue of-thefspring 24:, keep the face 29 against the face 30 and so remain 4unt-il the tension on the vestibule curtain exceeds the resistance offered the spring, .whereupon the inside lip 25, of

- many advantages of my improved vestibule curtain fasteningwill be apparent, and `h That l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is1 Y l( A vestibule curtain. fastener, compris"- ing. a base member havingla guideway and an' upstanding. lug providedv with an Aopening, a easingmember havingend walls. one of whichhas a hole', and the otherof which has.

`Hascrew threaded socket, a hookhavingAV a shoulder formed integral with the eas-ingA a pendent guide projeetion also carried by the casing member and` adapted to slidein theY guidewayinthe basemember, a pin adapted v to'holdthe casing .and base members slid-` ablytogetfher, a-ndfla spring fore-'holding the saidsections in operative relation. Y 2# Aive'stibul'e 'eurtainllfastenen comprising a base member and a Vcasing member, saidf'ba-se member having a guideway, an upstanding lug having an opening, and furtherprovide'd with an outwardly projecting:

keeperlshoulder,. the said casing member having end walls one of which is provided with a hole and lthe other with a threadedv socket, a pendent guidesmem'ber on the casingadapted'to slide inLtheTguijdeway, a shouldered hook 'integral with 'the' Vcasing and coperati'ng Wit-h the keeper shoulderonfthe' base' member to 'form' acl'osureg aV pin adaptY` ed' to be Vscrewed'into. the'threaded vsocket on the casingv member "and 'sli'dably pass through' the opening on the lug onthe basemember" to slidablyjholdthe baseandeasing members, together, and springggmeans vfor cushioning the `slidingjmembers'.A l

8.' Af vestibule 'curtain.'fa'stenenl Compris# ing La"baseunemberihaving ai guideway and yp rovided with"'attaching-"means,- a fastening" receiving lugj on" saidy m'ember; ai fastening elen'ient, a cfaisingufnember"inoluding'ahook; and' provided with` guide means,I said "easingf member adapted to' be detachablyvand slid# ably 'connect-ed- 'to/theA base member: by said fastening y element' beinginserted ithrough'theJ said fastening, receiving lug, and spring' means for holding'"theJ casing' section 'in f an operative position.- u A l l In.: testimonywhereofv I my signature in' presence-r of 4two "witnesses" n Y VVILLLML R.' GEE SEY'; Witnesses?. f

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